Rooting a Pixel

Rooting a Pixel.md

REFERENCES

• Pixel 7 https://web.archive.org/web/20230910101022/https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-unlock-bootloader-root-magisk-google-pixel-7-pro/
• Pixel 9 https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-rooting-your-pixel-9-pro-9-pro-xl-magisk-apatch-kernelsu.4689802/

APPS

• Play Integrity Fix https://github.com/chiteroman/PlayIntegrityFix
• playcurlNEXT https://github.com/daboynb/playcurlNEXT
• Revanced Extended https://github.com/NoName-exe/revanced-extended/releases/tag/126
• Zygisk Detatch (to prevent YouTube from auto-updating) https://github.com/j-hc/zygisk-detach
• AdAway (but allow s.youtube.com to keep youtube history) https://adaway.org/
• De-Bloater https://github.com/sunilpaulmathew/De-Bloater
• Pixel Updater https://github.com/PixelUpdater/PixelUpdater
• Zygisk Assistant (to make the DenyList actually work) https://github.com/snake-4/Zygisk-Assistant

STEPS

Unlock the bootloader

• https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools
• ./adb devices
• ./adb reboot bootloader
• ./fastboot flashing unlock

Patch the boot image

• Download and extract https://developers.google.com/android/images
• Insall Magisk .apk from https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk
• ./adb push ./caiman-ap4a.241205.013/image-caiman-ap4a.241205.013/init_boot.img /sdcard/Download/init_boot.img
• ./adb shell ls /sdcard/Download/ to verify
• Magisk --> Install --> Select and Patch a File
• ./adb pull /sdcard/Download/magisk_patched-28100_rocYP.img .

Flash the patched image

• ./adb reboot bootloader
• ./fastboot flash init_boot_a magisk_patched-28100_rocYP.img
• ./fastboot flash init_boot_b magisk_patched-28100_rocYP.img
• ./fastboot reboot

RVX_v20.05.46_rvp_v5.12.1_settings_2025-11-24.txt

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"default_video_quality_mobile": 1080,
"default_video_quality_wifi": 1080,
"disable_ambient_mode": true,
"disable_auto_captions": true,
"disable_chapter_skip_double_tap": true,
"disable_like_dislike_glow": true,
"disable_splash_animation": true,
"disable_translucent_status_bar": true,
"enable_opus_codec": false,
"hide_ai_generated_video_summary_section": true,
"hide_attributes_section": true,
"hide_autoplay_preview": true,
"hide_clip_button": true,
"hide_contents_section": true,
"hide_download_button": true,
"hide_mix_playlists": true,
"hide_navigation_notifications_button": true,
"hide_navigation_shorts_button": true,
"hide_playables": true,
"hide_player_flyout_menu_ambient_mode": true,
"hide_player_previous_next_button": true,
"hide_player_youtube_music_button": true,
"hide_quick_actions": true,
"hide_remix_button": true,
"hide_report_button": true,
"hide_rewards_button": true,
"hide_shop_button": true,
"hide_shorts_shelf_history": true,
"hide_thanks_button": true,
"hide_toolbar_create_button": true,
"hide_transcript_section": true,
"hide_voice_search_button": true,
"miniplayer_drag_and_drop": false,
"miniplayer_hide_subtext": true,
"miniplayer_type": "tablet",
"remove_viewer_discretion_dialog": true,
"restore_old_seekbar_thumbnails": true,
"settings_search_entries": "audio",
"spoof_streaming_data": false,
"swipe_brightness": false,
"swipe_volume": false,
"ryd_toast_on_connection_error": false,
"ryd_user_id": "BX0bs0NQpB4e0lDeBnnLJpTcrOktXPpAYCqK",
"sb_filler": "manual-skip",
"sb_highlight": "ignore",
"sb_interaction": "skip-once",
"sb_intro": "skip-once",
"sb_local_time_saved_milliseconds": 67289402,
"sb_local_time_saved_number_segments": 2448,
"sb_music_offtopic": "ignore",
"sb_outro": "skip-once",
"sb_preview": "skip-once",
"sb_selfpromo": "skip",
"sb_sponsor": "skip",
"sb_toast_on_connection_error": false,
"sb_toast_on_skip": false,
"sb_video_length_without_segments": true